Black Educators Can Help Decrease Drop Out Rates, Increase College Readiness. So This Philadelphia Man Created a Pipeline to Increase Number of Black Teachers In Classrooms
According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, only 7 percent of teachers in the U.S. are Black, a problem veteran educator, Sherif El-Mekki, is trying to improve with the Center for Black Educator Development (CBED). Launched in 2019, CBED was the brainchild of El-Mekki, who spent 26 years teaching and serving as a principal…